Digital Transformation and Equitable Global Health
A Future-Ready Perspective
- 1st Edition - September 10, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Arletty Pinel, Víctor López Cabrera, Renato Sabbatini
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 9 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 8 8 - 2
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Request a sales quoteDigital Transformation and Equitable Global Health: A Future-Ready Perspective presents a collective body of knowledge and global experiences that demonstrate current status and future trends in the use of exponential technologies and their potential for poverty reduction, improving health outcomes, strengthening health systems, and transforming traditional development aid structures. The book uses a translational innovation perspective to guide the reader—regardless of their area of expertise—on the rationale behind the co-creation of human-centered, affordable, and sustainable digital solutions.
It addresses the interest of professionals from multiple areas (e.g., technology, health, social development, global financing), and it is a valuable resource for professionals, social scientists, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in understanding the challenges and complexities of global public health and the applied uses of health technologies for equitable access to primary health care and universal health coverage.
It addresses the interest of professionals from multiple areas (e.g., technology, health, social development, global financing), and it is a valuable resource for professionals, social scientists, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in understanding the challenges and complexities of global public health and the applied uses of health technologies for equitable access to primary health care and universal health coverage.
- Presents the construction of a new paradigm for global health that is grounded on evidence-based global best practices, solutions, and agile innovation management
- Highlights reverse innovation from the Global South to give relevance to R&D technological disruption of the Global North
- Explores future-ready perspectives founded on the strategic use of current and future technologies, an aspirational human-centered digital and cultural transformation design, and a roadmap towards Society 5.0
Technology, health, and development professionals, social scientists, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and undergraduate and graduate students interested in understanding the challenges and complexities of global public health, the applied uses of health technologies for equitable access to primary health care and universal health coverage, and rethinking progress in development to date with a forward-looking vision
1. Setting the stage
2. Demographic changes and social determinants of health that influence the adoption and meaningful use of exponential technologies
3. The disruption of exponential technologies and how they will shape the future of health
4. Opportunities and challenges for the transformative change of national health systems
5. Global initiatives and their impact on regional and national adoption of exponential technologies
6. Financing exponential technologies for equitable health and development
7. Reimagining future-ready frameworks to catalyze transformative change in health systems
2. Demographic changes and social determinants of health that influence the adoption and meaningful use of exponential technologies
3. The disruption of exponential technologies and how they will shape the future of health
4. Opportunities and challenges for the transformative change of national health systems
5. Global initiatives and their impact on regional and national adoption of exponential technologies
6. Financing exponential technologies for equitable health and development
7. Reimagining future-ready frameworks to catalyze transformative change in health systems
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 10, 2025
- No. of pages (eBook): 250
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443214981
- eBook ISBN: 9780443214882
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Arletty Pinel
Arletty Pinel is the CEO of Genos Global Consulting, in Panama. She is internationally recognized as an authority bridging health, social development, and technology globally. Her health systems strengthening expertise includes the use of new technologies to improve programmatic outcomes and creating collaborative learning networks based on inter-sectoral, multi-institutional and cross-regional co-creation. She has supported programs in most regions of the world. Her professional trajectory encompasses leadership positions at major global organizations, such as such as director of Telemedicine and eHealth at iCarnegie, a subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University; chief at Reproductive Health at the United Nations Population Fund; and founding director for Latin America and Eastern Europe at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, where she oversaw a portfolio of 1 billion USD. Dr. Pinel holds a medical degree and is a certified psychiatrist from the University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil). She pursued post-Doctorate studies at Columbia University and Cornell University (New York, USA)
Affiliations and expertise
CEO, Genos Global Consulting, PanamaVL
Víctor López Cabrera
Víctor López Cabrera is a full time researcher and professor at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, in Panama. His research interests are in computer science, management information systems, global software development, social robotics, artificial intelligence, databases, collaborative systems, and telemedicine. He is one of the founders of the first Internet node in Panama. Dr. Cabrera is coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Collaborative and Intelligent Information and Communication Technologies for Inclusion (GIIITICCII) - a project in conjunction with The National Science Foundation of the United States and three other universities where the collaborative learning behavior of Software Development students from four countries (US, UK, Turkey, England and Panama, 2007-2016) was studied. Professor López is currently focusing on research projects in Telemedicine for elders as well as the application of Social Robotics for Education and Health (autism and cognitive aspects in older adults).
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher and Professor, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, PanamaRS
Renato Sabbatini
Renato Sabbatini is a biomedical scientist, with a doctorate and a post-doctoral fellowship in neurophysiology of behavior. He was a professor of physiology and medical informatics from 1970 to 1983 at the Medical Schools of the state Universities of Sao Paulo and Campinas, Brazil. He is founder and director of the Center of Biomedical Informatics for over 20 years, and founding member and past president and director of education of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics, and founding member and vice-president/education WG co-chair of the HL7 Institute Brazil, and former vice-president of IHE Association Brazil. Dr, Sabbatini is also founding Fellow elect of the International Academy of Health Science Informatics (IAHSI), IMIA, and Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He is currently an associate and invited professor of health informatics and telehealth at several medical and health sciences schools around Brazil, and a private consultant of HIT
Affiliations and expertise
Biomedical Scientist, Bahiana School of Medicine, Brazil